Very Fine Slip and Sgraffito Decorated Red Earthenware Plate, Attributed to Conrad Mumbouer (1761-1845), Haycock Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Dated 1802

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January 24, 06:43 PM GMT

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15,000 - 25,000 USD

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Very Fine Slip and Sgraffito Decorated Red Earthenware Plate

Attributed to Conrad Mumbouer (1761-1845)

Haycock Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Dated 1802

With incised tulip and urn design inscribed 18 Elisabet 02 /Cronutfrau? with red and green slip highlights on a yellow-beige glaze ground within a coggle-wheel rim border.

Diameter 11 3/4 in.

Christie's, New York, Pennsylvania German Folk Art and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Flack, September 6, 1997, sale 8638, lot 163

For plates with similar decoration attributed to Mumbouer, see Garvan figs. 66-75, pp 184-186 and Pennsylvania German Folk Art and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Flanders Smith, June 3, 1995, lot 206.